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History

During his third year at Hogwarts, Hagrid was falsely accused by Tom Riddle to have released a creature on the school that killed a muggle-born witch named Myrtle. As a result of this, his wand was destroyed by the Ministry of Magic. Although it was destroyed, Dumbledore allowed him to secretly keep the shards of his wand in the shaft of a pink umbrella, the shards still possessing a good portion of the wand's original power. However, since he never graduated, Hagrid's magic was never flawless; so even though he was able to use the pink umbrella as a wand substitute, he did not have the skill required for complex feats of magic. This caused him to rarely perform the spells that he wanted to.

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Examples of unsuccessful magic

In 1991, Hagrid lost his temper after Vernon Dursley insulted Albus Dumbledore, and tried to transfigureDudley Dursley into a pig in retaliation, but instead just gave him a pig's tail sticking out of his backside. Hagrid later regretted his loss of temper, but then implied that he couldn't turn Dudley into a pig because he was already much like one, the tail being the last pig-like part of him.